A twenty-year-old cross-dressing man from Downers Grove, Illinois, who goes by the transonym “Marcy” Rheintgen sashayed down to Florida with the intention of defying Florida’s law restricting women’s restrooms to girls and women. He announced his plans prior to his escapade by sending 160 letters to Florida state representatives. On his way to the Capitol, the allegedly “devout Catholic” Rheintgen, who was “draped in a white, frilly dress and a pink bow,” called Tampa Bay Times reporter Romy Ellenbogen, who accompanied him on his journey to notoriety.
When Rheintgen arrived at the Florida Capitol, the police were waiting for the scofflaw-wannabe, telling him that he would be trespassing if he entered the women’s restroom. Rheintgen pridefully announced, “I am here to break the law,” entered the women’s restroom, was ordered to leave, refused, and was arrested. He later complained that the police didn’t even give him enough time to pray the Rosary as he had planned.
In addition, Rheintgen is whining about the 24 hours he had to spend in jail and the possibility, if convicted, of spending up to 60 days in jail and paying a $500 fine. Poor baby. It’s so hard for members of the no-boundaries crowd to suffer the consequences of transgressing the few remaining boundaries we have in America.
Fetishist Rheintgen took to social media to indulge in twenty-two minutes of self-pity. Irony piled on irony like an excrement landfill. I will share the highlights so no one else has to suffer through the video in which Rheintgen says “like” 189 times.
He began by whining that he “looks clocky” in his video. For those unfamiliar with the protean rhetoric of “trans”-cultists, “clocky” means “not able to pass,” as in people will “clock” him as the man he is. The goal of “trans”-cultists is not authenticity. It’s deception.
Five times Rheintgen used a word rarely heard these days: “uppity.” He falsely claimed he was arrested for being “uppity.” Since there are no laws or policies anywhere prohibiting “uppitiness,” why would he make such a patently absurd claim? Why use such an oddly old-fashioned term? What historical phenomenon does the term “uppity” bring to the American consciousness?
Rheintgen makes clear the association he seeks to exploit:
I was just washing my hands. And that’s what happens to trans people who wash their hands in America. They imprison them. …
They used to arrest people for using the wrong bathroom a long time ago. I thought we were over that. You know, they used to arrest people for washing their hands or sitting at the wrong counters a long time ago. I thought we were over that. I thought we were a society that was egalitarian, that wouldn’t be imprisoning trannies.
Rheintgen was not arrested for being uppity, nor was he arrested for washing his hands in the wrong bathroom. He was arrested for breaking a reasonable law that reserves women’s restrooms for women and men’s restrooms for men.
In the odious days when racism poisoned the American landscape, blacks who defied the conventions racist whites imposed were deemed “uppity.” Rheintgen, like homosexual activists before him, exploits pre-21st-century racism to suggest that he is the Rosa Parks of the “trans” cult.
The first problem for Rheintgen’s analogy is that race or skin color is an objective, one hundred percent heritable condition with no behavioral implications whatsoever. Cross-sex impersonation, however, is a subjective condition constituted by feelings and volitional behavior that is a legitimate object of moral assessment. Cross-sex impersonation is more akin to racism than it is to race.
The second problem is that blacks were fighting for justice and truth. Rheintgen is fighting against justice and truth, as he tacitly acknowledges when referring to “clocking.” Rheintgen’s cause is based on a lie.
Rheintgen, like all “trans” cultists, believes policies and laws that recognize and respect biological differences in shared private spaces are wrong and evil:
I just recognized deeply that this was wrong, that the law was wrong. …
I decided to break the law because I just, like, I just felt like it was wrong. I know I said like a million times, but it felt like internally like, this is wrong, this is evil. Like, this is really, really evil. … And I accept my consequences.
I’m not sure what moral calculus Rheintgen uses to determine what constitutes evil, but it’s wildly different from that of millions of Americans who believe it is evil for a society to refuse to recognize and respect the reality and meaning of biological sex differences.
Rheintgen describes opposition to men in women’s bathrooms as “dehumanizing” to cross-dressing men like him—an assault on their “dignity” that is tantamount to treating them like “animals”:
The way people are talking about us is so dehumanizing. And so, like, we’re animals. And, like, I just want dignity. … I believe in dignity. That’s my belief. That’s my political beliefs. That’s my political ideology. It’s dignity, you know, I don’t think I should be imprisoned for using the women’s bathroom.
No word about the dignity of girls and women who rightly know they have an intrinsic right to be free of the presence of men in spaces where they undress or engage in personal bodily functions.
Even if Rheintgen has turned himself into a eunuch, women still retain their right not to have him in their private spaces.
The foundational issue is not about the risk of assault—though that is a grave concern. The foundational issue is whether sexual embodiment as male or female has meaning. If it has no meaning, then why should we have any single-sex bathrooms or locker rooms for anyone anywhere?
If, however, sexual embodiment has profound and intrinsic meaning, then the fact that Rheintgen doesn’t like his sex has no bearing on women’s right to exclude him from their private spaces.
In an unbelievable demonstration of his narcissism—the hallmark of all “trans”-cultists—Rheintgen shares his fears:
I might go to a men’s prison and I might get raped there. They’re gonna shave my head if I go to a men’s prison. … I’m not happy about that. I’m not happy that my hormones could be taken away from me for a couple months. … I’m not happy that the hair that I took so long to, like, grow and, like, get to a length where I like it, could just be … like shaved off my head. …
I like, looked at a lot of the other prisoners and they like, look so scary, like murderers and rapists kind of people. And I was just there because I washed my hands. You know, this is the country we live in. …
I was wearing this really pretty floofy dress and I was looking cool and cute and stuff and they thought I was a danger to women. So, they imprisoned me. They put me in a jail cell and they took away the key.
It was really isolating and lonely in prison or jail. Same death. I cried like almost the whole time.
Jail was horrible. It was gross. I felt like an animal. And I had, like, no agency. Like, you can’t leave. That’s the weird thing is, like, you can’t leave. I know that’s the thing about jail. But, like, it’s the first time in your life where you have, like, no free will.
He fears losing his flowing locks and estrogen, which facilitate his deception and enable him to enter women’s private spaces. Women fear losing all private spaces to men with deviant fetishes.
Rheintgen also fears predation by men. Now, don’t that beat all? He fears being raped. No word about the girls and women who have been raped by men and now fear that any man who dons a dress can enter their women’s restrooms and locker rooms.
Rheintgen expects sympathy for his 24-hour loss of agency. He freely planned to break a law. He freely chose to defy police officers’ warning not to enter the women’s restroom. He freely refused to leave when police officers instructed him to do so. In a society of laws, such free choices demonstrate a refusal to use one’s agency responsibly.
Rheintgen said, “I was so glad I didn’t have a cellmate because, like, obvious reasons.”
What does he think about the women who are today being forced to have male cellmates who, like Rheintgen, “identify” as women?
Rheintgen made this curious statement about two police officers who transferred him to the Leon County Jail:
They put me in a car. It was a very cool, handsome Italian man … as well as this dark haired Czech. … They both thought the law was like, wrong and it was weird that I was being imprisoned for this.
Seems like a bad idea for police officers to tell criminals that laws are wrong.
Let’s hope the whole country follows Florida’s lead and that cross-dressers stick to single-occupancy bathrooms. And maybe Illinois leftists could keep their lousy politics in the state they’ve already ruined rather than butting into other states’ business.
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